Police: Missing man found at Town of Poughkeepsie store

4:19 PM,
Oct. 25, 2012

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A man in his late 70s who has dementia and was reported missing was found today at a store in the Town of Poughkeepsie, authorities said.

The man was unharmed and was at the City of Poughkeepsie police station as of early Thursday afternoon. City police contacted the man's son, who said he was driving from upstate New York to pick him up, police said.

Granville Waithe, a Brooklyn resident from Barbados, had been scheduled to take an Amtrak train Tuesday from New York City to Buffalo, where his son lives, said city police Detective Sgt. Walt Horton. ...